LL
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LL
Huh, what an ironic coincidence that the self-ordained professor and high priest of emulsified pigment, Woofmutt, would write a book that just happened to have those initials.
According to an indisputable authority on everything (Wikipedia), "a prig is someone who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety; especially where the prig has the ability to show his/her superior knowledge to those who don't know the protocol."
Of course, Woffmutt is anything but a prig. We're all indebted to Woofmutt's tireless and selfless scholarship. In a time when natural finishes have become ubiquitous, he chronicled the glorious "painted palaces" of the past, before they disappeared. He's had to explain to those raised in the post-paint period, what is paint. How he's suffered, struggling to clarify to us slow-learners, that just because you have some colored sticky stuff, smeared on a wall, doesn't mean it's "paint". His books have spawned a whole revival of painting.
It also led to a new career for "Paintcan" Biff Perry, as he experimented with forgotten pigments and interviewed retired old-school painters, in his quest to recover the lost colors of yesteryear. Often, working with nothing more than a black-and-white photo, or with the description of a color, found scribbled on the back of an envelope, postmarked in 1947, the Can's been able to reproduce the exact formula for a certain shade of oil-based enamel.
"The rum's the thing..."
[ Edited by: Limbo Lizard 2009-02-04 09:10 ]
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